Introduction 0.1 Dramatic Setting for the Emergence of Harold Pinter 0.2 Pinter the Playwright 0.3 Thesis Apology Chapter One Discourse of Ambiguity 1.1 Absurdity or Ambiguity 1.2 Ambiguity: Pinter's Thesis 1.3 Quicksand: Pinter's Epistemic Metaphor 1.4 Uncertainty: The Prerequisite for Games Chapter Two The Symbiotic Contexture 2.1 Time and Space in Pinter's Drama 2.2 The Identity Dilemma 2.3 Paradigm of Identity: Inter-Subjectivity Chapter Three Game Anatomy 3.1 Pozzo's Game in Perspective 3.2 Ben vs. Gus: Prisoners' Dilemma 3.3 Davies's Zero-Sum Game 3.4 The Last War of Ruth Chapter Four Rhetoric of Strategies 4.1 Pinter's Rhetoric against Uncertainty 4.2 Ethic Encoding 4.3 Strategies for Will Accomplishment Conclusion Bibliography Acknowledgements