Cheung Wah. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 135-142). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.ii / Acknowledgements --- p.vi / Abbreviations --- p.vii / Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter One --- "The Language of Sexual & Political Oppressions in Pinter's Political Plays: One for the Road, Mountain Language and Party Time" --- p.9 / Chapter Chapter Two --- "Sexual Difference in Language in Pinter's Plays of Marital Failure: The Collection, The Homecoming, Betrayal and A Kind of Alaska" --- p.44 / Chapter Chapter Three --- "The Poetry of Forming Selves from the Past in Pinter's Memory Plays: Landscape, Silence, Old Times and Ashes to Ashes" --- p.90 / Conclusion --- p.127 / References --- p.135