●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......
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《流沙上的博弈：哈羅德·品特早期戲劇研究》對品特戲劇的話語語境進行分析，探討人物為了不被他們的模糊處境吞沒，做出了怎樣的不懈努力。運用博弈理論具體分析了品特早期的三部主要作品，《升降機》、《看門人》、和《回家》，挖掘每部劇中的知名品牌策略，從而也反映了品特作品劇情的策略推動模式，闡述了品特的戲劇人物的動機與決策機制。
