| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-9页 |
| Abstract | 第9-16页 |
| Introduction | 第16-40页 |
| ·Biographical notes on Harold Pinter | 第16-19页 |
| ·Understanding Pinter’s works | 第19-24页 |
| ·Literature review of Researches on Pinter’s plays | 第24-38页 |
| ·Pinter’s status in the literary world | 第24-28页 |
| ·Pinter as an Absurdist | 第28-29页 |
| ·Pinter’s language | 第29-31页 |
| ·Freudian interpretation | 第31-33页 |
| ·Gender interpretation | 第33-34页 |
| ·Pinter’s politics | 第34-38页 |
| ·The argument of the dissertation | 第38-40页 |
| Chapter One Pinter’s political concerns in his Comedy of Menace | 第40-49页 |
| ·The General conditions after WWII | 第40-42页 |
| ·The Theatre of the Absurd | 第42-43页 |
| ·Pinter’s Comedy of Menace | 第43-45页 |
| ·The Significance of the Comedy of Menace | 第45-49页 |
| Chapter Two Pinter’s small “p”politics: Struggle for Power | 第49-70页 |
| ·Micro-power in Pinter’s early plays | 第50-65页 |
| ·Power as relationship | 第50-60页 |
| ·Power as a network | 第60-62页 |
| ·Power as subjectless and decentered and omnipresent | 第62-63页 |
| ·Power related to knowledge and truth | 第63-65页 |
| ·Influences on Pinter’s conception of Struggle for Power | 第65-67页 |
| ·Language and Power | 第67-70页 |
| Chapter Three Pinter’s capital “P”Politics | 第70-99页 |
| ·Pinter’s political complex since his early age | 第70-75页 |
| ·Pinter and the British theatre in the 19805 and 19905 | 第75-77页 |
| ·Politics in Pinter’s late plays | 第77-88页 |
| ·Politics in One for the Road | 第77-79页 |
| ·Politics in Mountain Language | 第79-81页 |
| ·Politics in Party Time | 第81-84页 |
| ·Politics in The New World Order (1991) | 第84-86页 |
| ·Politics in Ashes to Ashes (1996) | 第86-88页 |
| ·Pinter’s exploration of politics | 第88-94页 |
| ·Language and politics | 第94-99页 |
| Conclusion | 第99-102页 |
| Bibliography | 第102-106页 |
