What literary movements were the playwrights in the Italian Renaissance connected to?

The Renaissance, literally ‘rebirth’ is a period roughly from
the end of the Medieval/Dark Ages up to some time in the 17th century. It marked a new phase of
history where there was a surge of interest in  science, politics, philosophy and art and,
paradoxically a rebirth of interest and even nostalgia for ancient civilizations and the
classics; especially Greek and Roman. Humanism is, in its broad concept of focus on man’s place
in the world – a shift from ethereal/metaphysical) is probably the artistic movement most
associated with Italian Renaissance dramatists. So, the Renaissance was a kind of paradox;
progressive in the spirit of technological and artistic advances along with the spirit of
humanism, but backwards in the resurgence of interest in Classical works. The Renaissance was a
kind of ‘neoclassicism’ in this respect but the actual Neoclassical Movement in literature did
not come until mid-18th century; about 100 years or so after the
Renaissance.