Dr Mark Lopez has authored several books on how to study as well as many study notes for texts.

How to discover the meaning of popular English texts, plays and films, etc., search the menu for ‘Meaning In a Nutshell’ (English Study Notes) by Mark Lopez PhD English Tutor.

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About Dr Mark Lopez’s study notes for popular English texts used in the Australian educational system.

  • English Text Notes: meanings and themes
  • Please contact me if you would like study notes for a particular text that you do not see listed on this page.
  • Private Tutoring in Melbourne ALSO available from Private English Tutor, Dr Mark Lopez

Mark Lopez PhD | Publications and Books

Review Dr Mark Lopez’s VCE Study Guides and other publications

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FREE Study Notes: Meanings of your Texts 

All About Eve (1950) – Film Meaning

The Women of Troy (415 BC)  – Play Meaning

Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake (2003) – Novel Meaning

Alfred Hitchcock (Director), Rear Window (1954) Film Meaning | Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, writer John Michael Hayes 

Truman Capote, In Cold Blood (1965) – Book Meaning

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus (1818) — Book Meaning

Hannie Rayson, Extinction (2015) – Play Meaning

Hannah Kent Burial Rites (2013) – Book Meaning

Fred D’Aguiar, The Longest Memory (1994) | Book Meaning